offthehookart: Trestle Dining Table

His new line, with Shaker influences, includes a chair, bench, coffee table, credenza, console and mirror. But the centerpiece is the $25,000 Travertine Trestle Dining Table, above, which has a hefty blackened steel base topped by a nine-foot slab of rough I recently moved into my first house and was in need of a dining room table and I was happy with the results. The table legs are built in several sections, which are then bolted together to form trestle-style legs. I used cross dowels that I custom Four chairs with a $16,000-$25,000 estimate brought $38,130, a low rectangular topped milk house table ($25,830 against $15,000-$20,000), a hanging cabinet ($23,370 against $10,000-$15,000), a trestle-based dining table ($19,680 against $8,000-$12,000 A sideboard as we know it was introduced in the mid-18th century as an extra surface (board) to stage and store pieces by the side of the dining table. It evolved from various trestle tables and slab shelves of the medieval period to the fluffed-up Other traditional designs were "improved," like the dining-room table, which was originally just a rectangular slab of wood held by a trestle or four legs. As early as the 1700s, designers had realized that dining tables could be improved by adding extra The furniture is inspired by sturdy wood tables, chairs, beds and chests found in traditional New England homes. There’s Inga, a Trestle Dining Table ($2,080); the Margatemedia console with lots of storage ($2,790); and Windsor, a graceful version of the .

My friend Mike and I used to go fishing off the beach for striped bass. It was at the house's big Trestle Dining Table that my parents got to know my future wife, and later delighted over their grandchildren. Years ago, my late father inherited a tiny Signs of a successful supper club. Photograph: Maren Caruso Maren Caruso/Maren Caruso Our restaurant, The Clove Club, started out three years ago as two trestle tables in our small London flat. My friends Chris, Johnny and I were all passionate about food Balloons are tied to different pieces of furniture in Toms-Price: a bed that's made of hickory branches; an armoire that opens up to reveal a 20-inch television and a little refrigerator; a trestle dining table with pass-through drawers (kids would love Built by Shane Bennett of Landmark Construction, there are custom touches throughout, and room for a vast trestle dining table that comfortably seats 14. At the back, across a courtyard, is a carriage house with garage on the ground level, guest suite on top. .